Improved means for extinguishing fire in steamships



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OF LOWELL, OHIO.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 69,267, dated September 24, 1867.

To au whom it may concern:

' Beit known that,l I, DANIEL SPOONER, of Lowell, in the county of Tashington and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fire-Extinguisher for Vessels; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference bein ghad to the accompanying drawin gs, forming part of this specitication, and in which the figure shows my apparatus in position for use on board of' a steamboat.

The object of theinvent-ion is to draw water from beneath a vessel and elevate it to any part ofthe ship, for the purpose of extinguishingtires, by means ofthe direct action of steam.

In the drawing, A represents a pipe bent in the form of the letter U, the bent end restingon the iioor ofthe ship, near the keel, and connected with the water under the ship by means of a short pipe, B, which runs down through the planking into the water, and admits the water to the pipe A. C is the steam-drum, with which one end of the pipe A communicates. D represents the ships keel; E, the main deck; F, the cabin-floor or upper deck, and G the cabin-roof. d, e, j', and g are cocks for admitting,` the water from the pipe Ato the different parts of the ship, the cock d being situated in the lower hold, c in the upper hold, f in the cabin, and g above the house. H is the throttle-valve, worked from the cabin, by means of which the steam is let on or shut oft, as the apparatus may render necessary. A valve may be placed between the water-inlet pipe B and the cocks d e j' g, to prevent the return of the water after it has been once elevated.

In such a water-elevator the steam from the drum O, entering,` the pipe A, forces the water that is in it up into the end of the pipe opposite to that attached to the steam-drum, and expels it from the pipe, creating a vacuum in the pipe A, which is instantly filled with water by atmospheric pressure through the short pipe B.

By this simple processwater may be at all times forced, in any desired quantities, to any part of a steamboat. No complicated arrangebut a simple pipe' attached to the steam-drum does all the work.

The apparatus is not only simple, cheap, and effective, butis not liable to `egct out of repair.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The steam nre-extinguisher above described, consisting,` ot' the pipe A, having several outlet-cocks, d e f g, the steam-drum C, the throttle-valve H, and the short pipe B, when used for the purpose and constructed in the manner specitied.

D. SPOONER.

Witnesses:

JOHN R. SPooNER, B. B. TILToN.

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